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the wife's brother.

It is the morning of Sunday, October 8th. This is a special episode of our

podcast. Here's what we know as of this morning in Israel.

There are 600 confirmed killed Israelis.

There are thousands wounded, many number of them in severe condition, as well as critical

condition. There are dozens of Israeli hostages in Gaza. In a coordinated assault on land through the air and sea, hundreds of

Palestinian militants, terrorists, infiltrated more than 20 Israeli towns, cities, kibbutzim, and army bases, burning houses,

killing and kidnapping soldiers and civilians, including women and children.

And to be clear, the hostages that have been taken are largely women and children.

Battles between Hamas and the IDF inside 20 villages and cities are still raging over 24 hours since this began.

Hamas had taken over two IDF bases that contained tanks and armored vehicles and other military equipment.

Hamas had stormed an outdoor party near Kibbutz Reim in the south, which 3,000 young Israelis participated in and as I said they

Killed and kidnapped dozens of them thousands of rockets have been fired on Israeli targets, including in Tel Aviv

in the center of Israel. This is like no war Israel has ever fought before, in that the enemy is inside Israeli territory

conducting operations. Yes there have been wars like the 67-6-day war and the 73 Yom Kippur war, some of which was fought

on Israeli territory, but not like this, where you have the enemy going door to door.

Village by village, in towns, in cities, in kibbutzim, just systematically rounding up,

either slaughtering or rounding up innocent Israelis and taking them back over the border.

This is new, which means a 20-year defense paradigm

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